Configure PLplot for the Visual Studio IDE

CMake allows you to generate Visual Studio solution and project files.

As of version 2.8.2 of CMake, here are a few caveats:

• If you use Intel Fortran, the solution/project files may cause errors when building. These affect only the Fortran libraries and examples. It is due to a small bug in CMake that should be fixed with the next release.
• For some reason you can not run the examples directly. We have not found out yet what is the matter, but there is a workaround - see below.

Workaround for examples built with Visual Studio

• Build the PLplot libraries and examples via the ALL_BUILD project
• Open a DOS box in the Debug directory for any one of these examples
• Set the following environment variables:

  set path=<build>\dll\Debug;%PATH% 
  set PLPLOT_DRV_DIR=<build>\drivers    
  set PLPLOT_LIB=<source>

  where: <build> is the directory where PLplot was built
  and the directory "<source>\data" holds the .pal and .fnt files

• In this environment you can run the sample program